Language acquisition is the process of associating mental representations with oral, written, graphic and gestured communication in an agreed upon mutual language that allows comprehension and expression. This process includes accepting communication and propositions that express intent, inferring grammar and style rules, and testing the rules.

The following is a “learn by example” English language acquisition process in a simple sentence written dialog protocol.

Case 2 – literals only match.
Input: Jake went to the gym.
Dialog entries: Mary went to the store. Alice went to the doctor’s office.
English Language Pattern: person went to the place.
Class: person (Mary, Alice)
Class: place (store, doctor)
Sentence structure (words + delimiter)
New elements: Assume that Jake is probably a person and gym is probably a place.

Case 3 – no match.
Input: Jake went to the gym.
Dialog entries: Mary went to the store. Alice went to the doctor’s office.
English Language Pattern: none
Class: person (Mary, Alice)
Class: place (store, doctor’s office)
Sentence structure (words + delimiter)
New elements: Assume that Jake is probably a person and gym is probably a place.
New elements: Assume that “person went to the place” is a new pattern.

Case 4 – variables match.
Input: Mary went to the doctor’s office.
Dialog entries: Mary went to the store. Alice went to the doctor’s office.
English Language Pattern: person was at the place.
Class: person (Mary, Alice)
Class: place (store, doctor’s office)
Sentence structure (words + delimiter)
New elements: Assume that “person went to the place” is a new pattern.